Swinging screen hanger and fastener.



No. 766,528. PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

W. ROMUENDER & E. J. FBLLMAN/ SWINGING SCREEN HANGER AND FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

PATENT OEEIcE.

1V ILLIAM ROMUENDER AND EDXVARD J. FELLMAN, OF MILWVAUKEE, \VISCONSIN.

SWINGING SCREEN HANGER AND FASTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,528, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed September 10, 1903. Serial No. 172,623. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, l/VILLIAM ROMUENDER and EDWARD J FELLMAX, citizens of the United States, and residents of Milwaukee, in the county of Hilwaukeeand State of \Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Iniprovements in Swinging Screen Hangers and Fasteners; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention relates especially to swinging screen hangers and fasteners in connection with window-frames; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a window-frame and swinging half-screen embodying our present invention, taken on the plane indicated by the line 1 1 in Fig. 3, showing in full lines the screen covering the lower half of the opening of the window-frame and in dotted lines indicating the screen reversed and attached, so as to cover the upper half thereof. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, aken on the planes indicated by the line 2 2 in Fig. 3; and Fig. 3, a view in elevation with the window-frame in vertical section on the plane indicated by the line 3 3 in Fig. 1 and looking outwardly from the inside of the apartment containing said window-frame.

Referring by numerals to the said drawings, 1 represents the bottom portion, 2 the top portion, and 3 a the vertical side portions of the window frame or casing provided with the usual vertical guide-strips 5 6 7 on each inner side and with the upper horizontal guidestrips 8 9 10, thereby leaving spaces to receive the edges of the upper window-sash 11 and lower window-sash 12 between them.

The screen illustrated comprises a rectangular frame 13, with an inwardly-extendinglateral strip 14 at one end, (the upper end in the normal position of the screen shown in the drawings where same is applied to cover the lower part of the window-frame opening,) and at this end the screen-frame is further provided with two shouldered hooks, constituting the hangers for the same, and at the opposite end (herein the lower end of the frame) with a revoluble handled catch 19, which engages with a suitable projection on the window-frame to lock the screen-frame thereto. These hangers in their preferred form herein illustrated are represented as being made of wire and comprise a vertical shank 15,with a projecting prong 16 at one end and an obliquely-disposed doubled hook 17 at its other end, said doubled hook extending away from its shank in a direction opposite to the projection of the prong, with the outer bend of the said hook coming practically at its extreme end in line with said shank, and this doubled end thus in the position of the screen shown in Fig. 1 extending over the lateral strip 14 of the screen-frame, while the prong 16 is driven into the adjacent end piece of the screen-frame 13 and preferably further held in position by a staple 18,driven into said end piece below the lateral strip 14. At the other end of the screen-frame 13 the said catch 19 is pivotally held in place by a screw 20 on whose shank it can be revolved by means of the catch-handle 21, and said catch is adapted for engagement at the proper time with a projection 22, secured to the bottom portion 1 of the window-frame, or with a like projection 23, secured to the upper horizontal guide 8 when the screen-frame is reversed, as hereinafter described. The screen proper, 24:, preferably of, wire mesh, is held to the rectangular screen-frame 13 in any suitable manner, as by the rectangular holding-frame 25. The opposed vertical guide-strips 5 5 are each provided'with two headed pins 26 27, and the hanger-hooks 17,with their attached screenframe, are suspended from the upper pins 26 26 when the screen is used for closing the lower half of the window frame opening, while if the said screen is reversed to close the upper half then the said hanger-hooks are engaged with the lower pins 27 27, and when the screen is raised up the catch 19 can be fastened to the described upper projection 23, as clearly indicated by the dotted'lines in Fig. 1.

The operation of our device will be readily understood from the foregoing description of its construction. taken in connection with the drawings. In hanging the screen-frame 13 to occupy the position shown in full lines in the drawings the screen-frame is held nearly horizontally, but with the transverse outer edge on a higher plane than the inner edge and with the lateral strip lt pointing downwardly and with the hanger-hooks between the pins 26 and 27 at each side with the lateral strip 14: (which is of less length than the end piece of the screen-frame to which it is attached) between the opposed side faces of the guidestrips 5 5 and with the end edges of the adjacent end piece (which project beyond the ends of said lateral strip 14:) in contact with the outer faces of the said guide-strips 5 5. In this position a slight upward movement of the thuscontacting end of the screen-frame 13 will serve to carry the now upwardly open ends of the hanger-hooks up to the upper pins 26 26, with which said open (doubled) ends of said hooks instantly engage, forming a hinge connection, and then the operator releases hold of the screen-frame, which instantly drops by gravity to place and can be fastened by a turn of the catch 19, which thus engages with the lower projection 22. If the screen-frameis designed to close the upper half of the windowframe opening, the said screen-frame is detached by lifting its lower end until it is again nearly horizontal, and an inward push of the screen-frame will instantly release the engagement between the hanger-hooks and pins 26 26 and the said screen-frame can be pulled away and vertically reversed (with the wiremesh 24 always on the outer surface of the screen-frame 13) and then brought to a practi call y horizontal position with the lateral strip 14 now uppermost and with the ends of the adjacent top piece of the screen-frame against the outer surfaces of the guide-strips 5 5 and with the hanger-hooks between the pins 26 27, but with the doubled ends 17 of the said hooks now open downwardly, and in this position the screw-frame is guided by contact with the strips 5 5 downwardly until in amoment engagement is made between said hooks and the lower pins 27 27, forming a hinge connection, and the screen-frame is swung upward thereon and fastened by engagement of the catch 19 with the upper projection 23. The said catch 19 is rounded on its inner edge,

so that a very tight cam-lock is effected by its engagement with the straight edge of the projection 22 or 23 and the screen-frame thereby held securely in either position to which it has been adjusted, and by reason of the shoulder or oblique bend of the hangerhooks all danger of the screen-frame being raised, pushed, or otherwise disconnected from the hinged connection is obviated in the movement of the upper window-sash or inhandling an awning or outside blind or shutter 1f such are connected to the window-frame.

While we prefer to make the hangers of wire, as shown, this is not material, as same may be made of sheet metal or of metal castings; but the described oblique shoulder is a necessary feature of their construction.

Having thus describedour invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a window-frame, and opposed vertical inner guide-strips secured thereto, of upper and lower pins, projecting from each guide-strip, one above and one below the transverse center thereof, on each side; a pair of projections, one secured to the inner surface of the bottom portion, and the other to the inner surface of the top portion, of said window-frame; and a vertically-reversible screen, having hangers with obliquely-disposed doubled hooks at one end of its frame, for engagement with either the upper or lower series of said pins, and a revoluble catch at the other end of its frame, for engagement with one or the other of said window-frame projections.

2. The combination with a window-frame, and opposed vertical inner guide-strips secured thereto, of pins projecting toward each other from the said guide-strips; a swinging screen-frame, having a lateral strip at one end, of a length less than the width of said screen-frame, and adapted to fit snugly between the opposed faces of said inner guidestrips, the adjacent projecting end edges of said screen frame being adapted to bear against the outer faces of said guide-strips; and a pair of hanger-hooks formed with vertical shanks secured to said screen-frame, and having oblique-shouldered open doubled ends for engagement with said pins, forming a removable hinge connection therewith, the said obliquely-disposed doubled hook ends projecting and extending entirely and only over the said lateral end strip of the screen-frame, and with the extreme free end of each of said doubled hook ends bent upward above the plane of the part of said hook end which is next the said vertical shank, whereby all danger of the said screen-frame becoming accidentally disconnected from said pins in the manipulation of said screen-frame, or in the movement of the devices connected or attached to said window-frame, is obviated.

3. The combination with a window-frame, and opposed vertical inner guide-strips secured thereto, of pins projecting toward each other from the said guide-strips; a swinging screen-frame having a lateral strip projecting inwardly from one end thereof, between the said guide-strips; and a pair of hanger-hooks in engagement with said pins, each hangerhook having a vertical shank with a projecting prong at one end and an obliquely-disposed doubled hook at its other end, the said prong entering the end of the screen-frame,

and said doubled hook projecting away from the county of Milwaukee and State of WVisconits shank in a direction opposite to the prosin, in the presence of two witnesses.

jection of the said prong and extending over r r a said lateral strip, with the outer bend of the AN 5 said hook coming practically, at its extreme end, in line with said shank. \Vitnesses:

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we H. Ur. UND ERWOOD, v

have hereunto set our hands, at Milwaukee, in E. W. HELLER. 

